Do you think conspiracy theorists are nuts?

Question

Perhaps you should think again.

"A principal reason Hemingway was pushed to see a psychiatrist was because he had insisted that “feds” were keeping him under close scrutiny. Under the Freedom of Information Act, FREEDOM obtained more than 100 pages of FBI documents which showed that J. Edger Hoover’s agents had haunted Hemingway’s life right up through his final days. The “feds” he complained about had been no illusion."

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The problem with government conspiracies is that once you find out about them it's too late.

Answer 1

Depends on the conspiracy. I have heard a lot that are just out of this world crazy, but yeah I think there are plenty that are certainly possible and probable.

Answer 2

The act of conspiring is an old and well practised act, which has at it's root the idea of planning and preforming acts in secret.
By looking though history we can see countless examples of conspiracy in practise. The American War of independence was at it's beginning a conspiratorial act.
Roman History in particular is full the stuff, poor old Julius fell fowl of one, but there were many many others.

Even on a small day today basis many people get involved in small conspiracies, it is so common in fact they we could even suggest that conspiring is human nature.

So back to the question.
Do I think conspiracy theorists are nuts?
Well a lot depends on the theory, but I would say that it is much healthier for a mind to question things in detail than to blindly believe the first explanation that is presented.

I have serious doubts about some conspiracy theorists views, one in particular is the 9/11 conspiracy story claimed by many Americans.
I mean, just because GW says, it was a group of terrorists who want to take your freedom, does not make it true!
So if people have problems with some conspiracy theories, why not with all?

No, the Nuts are those who hide from seeking the truth, and believe in the fairy stories told to them by others!

Answer 3

I don't think they are nuts but most want to think they are important not just cogs in a machine, so being "in the know" or having someone watching you is satisfying. It is also comforting to some people to believe that events are being controlled by someone, even if they are bad, rather than being subject to random events. After all you could feel be safer if Bush planed 9/11 than Bin Laden, because you would believe it would not happen again.

NOTE Close scrutiny would produce more than 100 pages.

Answer 4

My significant criticism is that those questions are in lots of situations phrased as though we are all morons for no longer seeing what's so needless to say seen by means of the guy while in actuality there are a number of techniques of seeing an identical guidance. i'm no longer an fool or a moron yet I frequently do no longer trust the conclusions and am very drained that the "conspiracies" consistently look generated by means of u.s. with the aid of fact the middle of evil interior the international. I relatively must be incorrect yet, boy I do in simple terms no longer see it that way. There are patently many greater vicious, threatening countries interior the international than the U. S.. Why could we enhance such tricky hoaxes? what's the "upside" to those that ought to have had to have been in touch. Occam's razor in lots of situations works in those circumstances. the simplest answer is in lots of situations perfect and the simplest answer rarely includes a extensive scale governmental conspiracy...

Answer 5

I suppose that we are talking about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

The conspiracy theorists accuse Musharraf of being behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

However lets consider what we do know:

1. Benazir Bhutto was strongly pro western

2.Benazir Bhuto was strongly anti Taliban

3.Benazir Bhutto was strongly anti Al Qaida

4. Benazir Bhutto was strongly anti tribal warlord

5. Benazir Bhutto was strongly anti Muslim extremist.

6 Benazir Bhutto had just entered into a power sharing coalition with Musharraf who has a history of being a very good coalition builder, where they would have their power bases work in a powerful coalition to stamp out the influence of The Taliban, Al Qaida, tribal warlords and all other Muslim extremists in Pakistan.

7. The Taliban, Al Qaida, the tribal warlords and the Muslim extremists were all very fearful and very resentful that a woman might come to have power and defeat them. In a Muslim country being defeated by a woman is a terrible disgrace. The Muslim extremists could not permit something like that to even be a possibility.

8. Benazir Bhutto and her power base were Musharraf's best source of protection against The Taliban, Al Qaida, the tribal warlords and the rest of the Muslim extremists who have made a number of assassination attempts against Musharraf

9. If Musharraf wanted Bhutto out of the way all he had to do was permist an existing Pakistani arrest warrant against Benazir Bhuto to be exercised. That would have put her in jail, prevented her from taking office and would have prevented her from becoming a Martyr, which is a bigger threat to Musharraf than Bhutto in jail.

10. Musharraf does not control any suicide bombers. The people who control the suicide bombers are the Taliban, Al Qaida, tribal warlords and all of the other Muslim extremists.

When you look at the facts that you do know they point very strongly to the assassins being one or a combination of:

the Taliban, Al Qaida, the tribal warlords and/or the other Muslim extremists in Pakistan.

Answer 6

Well, I mean, how can you compare this to people who do not believe we ever landed on the moon, or 911 was an inside job?

The FEDS spying on a single man is more of an accusation than it is a conspiracy; at least when compared to extremist ideas.

Let's put it this way, you presented a believable conspiracy theory; whereas, the people on this board are more concerned with psychotic conspiracy hypotheses.

Answer 7

If you swing enough you'll eventually hit a ball. That doesn't mean you belong in the major leagues.

Yes, conspiracy theorist's are (for the most part) paranoid and possibly "nuts".

Answer 8

Yes conspiracy theorist who have no facts are nuts

and Hoover, was a nut to begin with.


We live in different times man. Get with reality

Answer 9

When presented with the evidence to prove them wrong and they persist that they "know" better. Yes, I consider them nuts.

Answer 10

i think some are nut jobs.

but i think some have a strong case.

it just depends on the conspiracy